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SUMMER JOB LESSONS
By WARREN STRUGATCH
The summer after my freshman year at Hofstra University, I was hired as a
camp counselor in the Catskills.
My new job was at Camp Mi-Han-Sa up in Ellenville, a small business run
by a Brooklyn couple named Hannah and Sam. The camp has been gone
for decades. Back then it offered plenty of kids their first summer jobs and
provided great vacations for hundreds of Brooklyn kids. I vividly remember
being handed a sealed envelope containing two weeks’ pay and feeling proud
as hell.
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HEALTH TECH 2.0
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